Monday, May 11, 2015

On May 8, 2015, ESPN's NBA Basketball was the highest rated show on cable with a 2.22 - followed by Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital (0.63), NBC Sports' NHL Hockey (0.55) and Discovery's Bering Sea Gold (0.53).

NBA Basketball was the most viewed program with 5.614 million viewers - followed by Disney's Dog With a Blog (2.194), Bering Sea Gold (1.627) and Childrens Hospital (1.418).

The Cable Ratings for Friday, May 8

Show

Network

Time

18 - 49 Rating

Viewers (Millions)

1

NBA Basketball

ESPN

8:04 PM

2.22

5.614

2

NBA Basketball

ESPN

10:43 PM

2.12

4.989

3

Childrens Hospital

Adult Swim

12:00 AM

0.63

1.418

4

NHL Hockey

NBC Sports

7:02 PM

0.55

1.365

5

Bering Sea Gold

Discovery

9:00 PM

0.53

1.627

6

Pardon the Interruption

ESPN

5:30 PM

0.37

0.863

7

Dog With a Blog

Disney

8:00 PM

0.36

2.194

8

NHL Hockey

NBC Sports

10:12 PM

0.35

0.832

9

Hangar 1: The UFO Files

History

10:00 PM

0.34

1.363

10

Unearthed

Discovery

10:00 PM

0.32

0.982

11

Cold Justice

TNT

8:00 PM

0.27

1.143

12

Meet the Smiths

TBS

9:00 PM

0.27

0.772

13

Around the Horn

ESPN

5:00 PM

0.25

0.547

14

The Pool Master

Animal

10:00 PM

0.24

0.611

15

Real Time with Bill Maher

HBO

10:00 PM

0.23

1.120

16

Highly Questionable

ESPN

4:30 PM

0.22

0.432

17

For Better or Worse

OWN

9:00 PM

0.21

0.651

18

Flipping Ships

Animal

9:00 PM

0.21

0.666

19

Say Yes to the Dress

TLC

9:00 PM

0.21

0.799

20

Curvy Brides

TLC

10:01 PM

0.20

0.810

21

Uncle Grandpa

Cartoon

5:00 PM

0.20

1.150

22

Curvy Brides

TLC

9:31 PM

0.20

0.745

23

Psychic Matchmaker

TLC

10:32 PM

0.16

0.560

24

Kickboxing

Spike

11:00 PM

0.16

0.488

25

Bitten

Syfy

9:00 PM

0.15

0.486

26

The Killing Hour

ID

10:00 PM

0.15

0.647

27

ViCE

HBO

11:00 PM

0.15

0.580

28

E! News

E!

6:30 PM

0.14

0.290

29

Psychic Matchmaker

TLC

11:02 PM

0.14

0.477

30

Mysteries at the National Parks

Travel

10:30 PM

0.14

0.471

31

Mysteries at the Museum

Travel

9:00 PM

0.13

0.594

32

Mysteries at the National Parks

Travel

10:00 PM

0.13

0.498

33

Lost Girl

Syfy

10:00 PM

0.12

0.510

34

NCWTS Racing

FS1

8:30 PM

0.11

0.845

35

Bama State Style

Lifetime

11:02 PM

0.11

0.319

36

Twisted

ID

9:00 PM

0.11

0.600

37

The Grace Helbig Show

E!

10:30 PM

0.09

0.163

38

IMPACT Wrestling

DAM

9:00 PM

0.08

0.358

39

MLB Baseball

MLBN

9:35 PM

0.07

0.176

40

Boxing

TruTV

10:00 PM

0.06

0.242

41

Cesar 911

NatGeoWild

9:00 PM

0.05

0.224

42

Comedy Bang! Bang!

IFC

11:00 PM

0.01

0.014

No rating information was made immediately available for E!'s The Soup; History's Ancient Aliens; NatGeoWild's The Truth About Cats; Pivot's Angry Planet; and Showtime's Brad Williams: Fun Size.

NOTE: For the 2014-15 broadcast season, a 1.0 rating in the Adults 18-49 demographic is equal to 1.2698 total million viewers. A18-49 is the rating most commonly reported and helps determine ad rates but is not the sole explanation for whether a show will be renewed or cancelled.